CMS is approving this time-limited state plan amendment (SPA) to respond to the COVID-19 national emergency. The purpose of this amendment is to add a temporary 5% nursing home rate eff 4/1/21 through 6/30/21. It also makes additional rate add-ons for pediatric inpatient psych services effective from June 1, 2021 through June 30, 2022, rate add-on for hospitals that increase pediatric inpatient psychiatric bed days by at least 10% or 2 beds compared with the same quarter in 2019, whichever is greater and effective July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2022 a rate add-on for pediatric inpatient psychiatric bed days provided to each child whose behavior demonstrates acuity that requires additional support on the inpatient unit and is sufficiently acute that it interferes with therapeutic participation.
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